Favorite films

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  The Town 2010

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 07 Mar 2025

  This thing is littered with more grade A lines than a Charlestown safe house apartment in a Boston movie.   Just a true delight.  Apparently the original was almost 4 hours long and Affleck had to really pick and choose what stayed and went, and it shows; there’s not an ounce of fat on this, every moment matters and the payoff at the end is incredibly satisfying.  Unendingly rewatchable and enjoyable.  Almost not worth over-analyzing, sometimes a movie just rocks and makes you happy.  “There goes college soccah!”

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  Nosferatu 2024

  ★★½ Watched 30 Dec 2024

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Popular reviews

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  1917 2019

  ★★★★ Watched 20 Dec 2024 5

  “It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” 

  So many thoughts.  Firstly -  kinda surprised by how many of the top reviews of this are relatively disparaging.  The overall rating is good, which makes me think it’s a silent majority thing, but still not what I expected when the credits rolled and my short essay started.  

  I thought this was a really well crafted movie.  The point that I think negative-reviewers…

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  Ratatouille 2007

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Nov 2024

  Really torn between 4 and 4.5 stars - so many of my favorite animated films (Shrek, Nightmare Before Christmas, Lilo & Stitch, etc) have been comfortably rated as 4 stars - but not only does this one rank higher in average letterboxed score than all of those, but it really does feel like it deserves to be one class higher.  It’s so great.  The animation is wonderful, the plot is a home run and tries to be as realistic as it…

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